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Memoranda from the Director of Operations uncovers an early-19th-century diarist who was doing this AAIO schtick long before we encountered our first tea tree oil toothpick. Although, unlike us, he appears to have been somewhat density-hostile. “[T]he town is laid into too small lots for so inland a place, and held at the most extravagant prices.” The culture didn’t impress him either. “The people are proud and distant; poor accommodations at the taverns.” Keep in mind that this was before Rick’s and Scorekeepers.
And don’t get him started on the “I Should Rather Be in Ann-Arbour” engravings adorning the back of every carriage in town.
Ann Arbor Archeologists recently uncovered cave paintings which depict a distinct lack of mastodon parking, as well as some sort of debate about keeping sitting boulders outside of caves rather than inside.
posted by DanIzzo on January 23rd, 2006 at 5:34 pm